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Reassessing the Washington Consensuses (Consensi?) -- Views from Brazil - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Beware the G-20 Summit Syria Freak-Out. TPP, TTIP and Getting America's Competitiveness Back on Track ». September 06, 2013. Reassessing the Washington Consensuses (Consensi? Posted by David Shorr. Last month, colleagues and I spent a week in Brazil in an effort to take the pulse of Brazils foreign policy community. The intensive itinerary was arranged with the help of leading think tank CEBRI. And included senior and very senior officials. . Of course this level of generalities and broad principl...

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Some Questions That Skeptics of a Syria Attack Should Ask Themselves - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; On the Importance of Relationships - The Artie Fufkin Doctrine. Beware the G-20 Summit Syria Freak-Out ». September 03, 2013. Some Questions That Skeptics of a Syria Attack Should Ask Themselves. Posted by David Shorr. The confusion has run rampant across the recent media coverage and commentary. For every paragraph on President Obamas proposal to punish Assad for using chemical weapons there is another graf criticizing the plan for failing to resolve the core conflict. Now Ill admit that this lea...

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The G-20 Agenda -- A View From the White House Sherpa - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Zero Nuclear Weapons - Maybe / Maybe Not in My Lifetime. Getting Ready to Ratchet Iran Sanctions Down [UPDATED] ». July 14, 2013. The G-20 Agenda - A View From the White House Sherpa. Posted by David Shorr. The other day I moderated a discussion of the G-20s agenda for St. Petersburg in September at a CSIS summit preview event organized by Matt Goodmans political economy program. And Atkinsons keynote presentation here. Will understand why I was so pleased to hear Caroline Atkinson say this:.

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Getting Ready to Ratchet Iran Sanctions Down [UPDATED] - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; The G-20 Agenda - A View From the White House Sherpa. Chemical weapons or not, more arms in Syria fan the flames ». July 14, 2013. Getting Ready to Ratchet Iran Sanctions Down [UPDATED]. Posted by David Shorr. I wanted to circle back to a recent piece by  Carnegie Endowment President Jessica Mathews. That said, she makes a crucial point about sanctions and Irans nuclear program:. Absolutely, if we tighten sanctions in the absence of cooperation, then we must ease them when Tehran is more forthcomi...

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Zero Nuclear Weapons -- Maybe / Maybe Not in My Lifetime - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Breaking Down the Wonk/Pundit Stovepipes. The G-20 Agenda - A View From the White House Sherpa ». June 16, 2013. Zero Nuclear Weapons - Maybe / Maybe Not in My Lifetime. Posted by David Shorr. 0160;  . Like many foreign policy mavens of a certain age (i.e. from That 70s Generation), I got into this business to oppose the nuclear arms race. Thirty years later, we find ourselves living in proverbial interesting times. Ever since President Obamas famed Prague speech. In my summit piece. I framed US-R...

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Questions on the Brothers Tsarnaev - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Progress and Warnings On U.S.-Africa Security Cooperation. Country See, Country Do - Nonproliferation Edition ». April 19, 2013. Questions on the Brothers Tsarnaev. Posted by The Editors. This post was written. By James Lamond and Bill French. Events and reports are coming out of Boston rapidly. Much of what we hear in the next few hours will be refined and corrected. This week’s media coverage. Did the Tsarnaev Brothers act alone? The Treasury Department’s tools for tracking terrorist and illicit...

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What's The Matter With The G20? - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Recording of NSN's Media Call on Pentagon Reductions and Contractor Myths. The Incipient Republican Foreign Policy Re-Think ». December 19, 2012. What's The Matter With The G20? Posted by David Shorr. Experts are worried about the G20. After four years and seven summit meetings, many of my fellow G20-watchers are asking why the group doesnt have more to show for its efforts? In fact, many of us were in Moscow last week when Russias government - together with leading think tanks RANEPA. Many worry ...

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Does the G-20 Have Too Much on Its Plate? - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Use of American Power, An Unhealthy Obsession (According to Bill Kristol). Foreign Policy "Requires Collective Action" Too ». January 17, 2013. Does the G-20 Have Too Much on Its Plate? Posted by David Shorr. Over at the interpreter blog. Of  Australias Lowy Institute, Mike Callaghan and Mark Thirlwell kindly responded. 0160;to a recent  post I wrote on the G-20. Disputing my claim that the G-20 has enough diplomatic bandwidth to tackle a variety of issues, Callaghan and Thirlwell respond:. Becaus...

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Breaking Down the Wonk/Pundit Stovepipes - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Revisiting Benghazi. Zero Nuclear Weapons - Maybe / Maybe Not in My Lifetime ». June 13, 2013. Breaking Down the Wonk/Pundit Stovepipes. Posted by David Shorr. Recently I did a media interview with a different kind of outlet than usual: a web-based energy market newsletter called OilPrice.com. A system of pledges and peer review may be more workable and appropriate:. We’ve seen that Beijing and New Delhi are more amenable to a system of peer review for GHG reductions than a fully elaborated and co...

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Country See, Country Do - Nonproliferation Edition - democracyarsenal.org

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Laquo; Questions on the Brothers Tsarnaev. Revisiting Benghazi ». April 26, 2013. Country See, Country Do - Nonproliferation Edition. Posted by David Shorr. Many of our debates about Americas role in the world are merely different ways of asking how goody-goody we should be when faced with others unruliness? This question is at the heart of a Jim Traub post a couple weeks ago on Limits of Leading by Example. But the coin of rule-abidingness has not bought as much cooperation, from as many actors, as the ...